His understanding of character is shown to us, the readers, by an attachment we grow for Emily while limiting the details we know of her. ... When Emily's father died she denied that he passed away until they were on the brink of using force to remove his body from the house. This is just another example of the way many in our society hold onto things and how Emily just can't let go. ... It is not known how long she laid there but the indention in the pillow gives the reader a clue that it must have been for a lengthy period of time. ... The one thing we may never know about this...

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Did he die from alcoholism? ... Did he die from a sickness? ... Virginia was dying of tuberculosis. "The Raven" is thought to reflect on Poe's life and how crushed he will feel after Virginia will die, which is why the tone is full of intense sadness. ... The story has a creepy vibe, but if you follow this story you realize how great of a read it is. ...

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Reading this story makes one understand that we must always realize that death can be near and we must always tell our loved one that we love them, and that we must not ever try to understand why the timing of our demise. Usually, most of us would believe that the confrontation with death is negative as no one wants to die. After reading the story To Build a Fire one would understand how one can be oblivious to the fact that they can die at any time. ... Reading this story makes one realize that we are in this life together, we must learn from one another, and never believe we know all. ...

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Collins had run through the heat of battle to get a bucket of water; out of necessity, or fear, or what he had to prove, we don't know. ... This shows how Collins risked his life for nothing. Another example of situational irony is when Collins stopped to give a dying man his last drink. ... We all know that war is definitely not kind. ... In ""War is Kind," all of the men or one man (it depends on how you look at it) die during battle, but there are no actions on which to base a substantial label of "heroic." ...

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Mallard comes alive once her husband dies by Mrs. ... Mallard sees him, she almost instantly dies. ... For most of the story, readers learn about the lottery, how it is conducted, who conducts it and how it has remained (although other towns have given it up) a strong tradition they submissively hold. ... However, we are shocked, troubled, and horrified when we discovered that the "winner" has succeeded in attaining a stoning. ... Jackson showed the reader the fact that some people actually like to see someone die. ...

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We all experiences all sort of battles in our lives. ... When something bad happens, we are likely to stick in the past. But how do we get rid of these bad feelings and when will it happen? ... We do not know how they lost their son, but the text tells in p. 3 l. 122-123: ''We attended a group for parents of children who died in preventable accidents'' that it was not a natural death (it never is when children die), but it must have been a terrible accident when they could have prevented it from happening, and they must have a lot of bad guilt in them. ... He describes ho...

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Despite how he feels, David goes to the barn and shoots the pigeons. ... This makes him feel comfortable in believing that there will be life after death, and he says "maybe we don't die." ... I believe that Updike is trying to convey that questioning what happens after we die is not truly important, but believing in god will rid you of any fear you have. ... Noticing how beautiful god's creatures are gave him a sense of comfort in believing in life after death. We are too significant for there not to be a heaven. ...

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But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul. ... In "The Tell-Tale Heart " narrator dies out of realization of his guilt. ... Any normal man cannot do such a thing that we considered as abnormal activities. ... The protagonist of "The Tell-Tale Heart"" sounds abnormal and insane when he explains how he killed the old man whose eyes used to haunt the narrator. How can someone's eyes haunt someone enough that people can kill someone? ...

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It would be impossible and to live each day in fear that I may be next, I would just die from being so scared. ... "If we ask today, sometimes with a faint if se! ... "We have learnt, on the other hand, that everything can be stolen, in fact is automatically stolen as soon as attention is relaxed; and to avoid this, we had to learn the art of sleeping with our head on a bundle made up of our jacket and containing all our belongings, from the bowl to the shoes"(Levi 33). How could one steal from another? ... If they died because of their refusal, then they died standing up for themselves an...

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Among those functions, I would like to find out how the minor characters in "Araby" affect the boy in terms of characteristics. By analyzing the priest, the boy's uncle, Mangan's sister, and the people at the bazaar, we will be able to find out more concretely how the minor characters function. ... He often spends his time in the back drawing room where the priest had died. ... From the story we can see that the boy has no parents. ... Thus, through Mangan's sister we can see how the author develops the boy as a naive and immature character. ...

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"The Turn of the Screw" starts off fine and gradually gets creepier as the story continues, starting from the first time the governess sees a man on the tower staring at her, all the way to when Miles just dies at the very end. ... "The Turn of the Screw" begins with the narrator describing how "Douglas" has a very eerie story about a ghost that visits two children. ... The most bizarre similarity between these two fantastic stories is that a main character in each story dies at the end with no explained reason or explanation. With "The Sandman," the reader knows how Nathaniel died, but why he...

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Alice Elliot Dark shows how a mother loves her child by staying with her son until the day that he dies. ... He's is always been such a hypochondriac- we have that in common. ... Janet shows it by taking care of her sick son and never leaving his side until the day he dies. ...

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Mallard blatantly proves this in the story by dying after seeing her husband walk in the front door. Point Of View We experience the joy Louise Mallard felt upon hearing of her husband's death through third person narration. ... For heaven's sake open the door".(574) No one really knows early in the story how Louise really feels about her husband dying. ...

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In many of the stories we have read in class, the theme of mental illness has been present. We see a man who kills another man for seemingly no reason, a victim of depression becoming infatuated and obsessed over a supposed woman in a wall, and we witness an elderly woman having a mental break from reality. ... He knows exactly how to lure Fortunado down into the crypt and strokes his ego in order to keep him moving on. ... Even when telling us that he feels ill immediately after leaving a man to die, he is quick to let us know it has nothing to do with that. ... When her father dies, she refu...

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As the story unfolds, we see how the setting begins to play an important role in how the narrator discovers the many ways he may die. ... Richard Wilbur tells us how fitting the chamber in "The Pit and the Pendulum" actually was. ... The images he gives us such as how both the Usher family and the Usher mansion are crumbling from inside waiting to collapse, help us to connect the background with the story. ... As we picture in our minds the extreme decay and decomposition, we can feel as though the life around it is also crumbling. ... It is not until the very end of the story that we reali...

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From this we can see how Winton has tied in the physical world and the spiritual world. ... It states at the end "I"m Fish Lamb, for as long as it took to die,...as long as it took to tell you all this". ... However, from our reading of the text we are able to guess who these people are and it shows to viewers how both the Lambs and the Pickleses have reunited with each other and how the house itself has settled down since the division in the corridor has been removed. ... From these sub-chapters we are able to see how the conflict unfolds and individual characters are slowly revealed. ... ...

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From this we can see how Winton has tied in the physical world and the spiritual world. ... It states at the end "I"m Fish Lamb, for as long as it took to die,...as long as it took to tell you all this". ... However, from our reading of the text we are able to guess who these people are and it shows to viewers how both the Lambs and the Pickleses have reunited with each other and how the house itself has settled down since the division in the corridor has been removed. ... From these sub-chapters we are able to see how the conflict unfolds and individual characters are slowly revealed. ... ...

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From this we can see how Winton has tied in the physical world and the spiritual world. ... It states at the end "I"m Fish Lamb, for as long as it took to die,...as long as it took to tell you all this". ... However, from our reading of the text we are able to guess who these people are and it shows to viewers how both the Lambs and the Pickleses have reunited with each other and how the house itself has settled down since the division in the corridor has been removed. ... From these sub-chapters we are able to see how the conflict unfolds and individual characters are slowly revealed. ... ...

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He proves how brave, kind, and compassionate he is, which cannot compare to anyone within the outcasts. ... Because of what I just told you, we can conclude Oakhurst is a strong man; however, Tom is a sign of Mr. ... Oakhurst would rather die in the snowy mountain than let Tom freeze and starve to death. ... At the end of the story, Oakhurst shows how weak he is in front of Mother Nature. ... Instead of waiting to die because of starvation and freezing, he chooses to end his life as soon as possible. ...

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"Livvie", A Celebration of life Eudora Welty's "Livvie", is a great story on how life should be celebrated. ... The young girl gets a second chance at life when a younger man (someone her own age) enters her life and the older man is about to die. ... He does not realize how unappreciative he is making Livvie. ... Solomon is dying and Livvie is ready to go out and see what the world has to offer. ... In the end when the old man is dying, a second opportunity to live life is available. ...

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Flora's father had set the wedding one year ahead before he died. ... The teacher then, in her early fifties got a paralyzing disease and died. ... We learn more about them as we continue to read. ... We get to know the characters mostly by the description of their actions and their reactions and also of how they think. ... But she is a woman with a lot of courage who learns to accept how life is. ...

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Many of the poems written during the Romantic period showed how nature is good and is in control. ... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow also chose to show how nature is in control. ... He talked about how everything in Arkansas was big and beautiful, even the mosquitoes and dying turkeys. ... He showed how nature had no faults and that it had the plan and we are a part of it. From the aforementioned examples the themes of Romanticism and how they are illustrated in some short stories and poems become more visible. ...

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It is told by an omniscient narrator, so that we see scenes from different point of views and therefor get to know the characters by hearing their inner thoughts. ... He is not living up to the ideals and pictures she has about how you are a real man, and unfortunately Wilson lives to these standards, she thinks. ... This was definitely not how Wilson thought you should finish such a job, according to Wilson you have to face your enemy and not run like a coward- it must be done with honour. It is of course easy to say for a man who lives by the Shakespeare quotation: " By my troth, I can die ...

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We can never know when it will consume us but when it does happen, we can die either in the dark or in the light of God like the grandmother. ... Even though that is how he is seemed to be, O'Connor makes a point with him that, everyone can get salvation if they believe. ... The grandmother does not show her spiritual beliefs at all in the beginning but at the very end, we finally see that side of her. She only does this due to the fact she is about to die in a few moments and she was grasping at straws to save her life. ... In my opinion, O'Connor makes the character do this to show...

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